There are a lot of reasons to choose transport training. Canada is a country that relies on its truckers for the flow of consumer goods, including the most basic, life sustaining items such as food. Here are ten reasons to choose transportation courses and become a trucker.

1. Trucking contributes billions of dollars a year to the Canadian economy

According to Statistics Canada, trucking contributed more than $14 billion to our economy in 2004. More than half of the Canadian products exported to the U.S. in the same year were shipped by truck, and then three-quarters of the products that were brought into Canada did so by truck.

Takeaway for prospective students of transportation courses: Trucking is a robust industry. There are few viable alternatives for transporting goods in Canada.

2. Canadians depend on truckers for their most basic consumer goods.

Most of the food on our supermarket shelves has travelled thousands of miles to get there. Our food transportation is dependent on graduates of transport training. Truck school students, our supermarket aisles need you!

3.Most of the consumer goods transported between Canada and its neighbour to the south are transported by truck.